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Ethnographer of Eastern Europe

Appearances

Invited Lectures, Readings, and Presentations (Recent)

2019

“Sex and Super Power Rivalry: Women’s Rights and Cold War Competition at the United Nations, 1968-1990,” 21st Distinguished Lecture in the Anthropology of Europe, University of Massachusetts – Amherst, April 18, 2019

“Capitalism Between the Sheets: Sexual Economics Theory and the Commodification of Everyday Intimacy,” The New School Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies, March 27, 2019

“Women in Red: East European Mass Women’s Organizations and International Feminism during the Cold War, Keynote Lecture, (Re)thinking Yugoslav Internationalism, University of Graz, Austria, September 29, 2016

“Sisters in Solidarity: Mass Women’s Organizations in Eastern Europe and Africa,” Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, June 7, 2016

“The Country Under My Skin: Ethnography and the ‘Unknown Unknowns’” Microsoft Research New England, USA, May 27, 2014

“Pestering the Politburo: The Committee of the Bulgarian Women’s Movement and Communist Feminisms,1968-­‐1990,” presentation at the Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Toronto, Canada, May 25, 2014

“State Socialist Women and the ILO during the Cold War,” presentation at the European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC), Vienna, Austria, April 24, 2014.

“Photographic Propoganda: The Visual Life of Gender Under Communism,” presentation at the annual meeting of the American Ethnological Society (AES), Boston, USA, April 12, 2014.